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Hello -- this is my family and they are very well researched and documented by Edna Simpson in her book "The Mashburn family of North Carolina and Georgia". This book is available on interlibrary loan.
M.M. Mashburn is Dawson County in 1880 is my great=great grandmother Mary M. Cockburn Mashburn who was married to John Wesley Mashburn, first cousin to your Melvin, and son of Rev. John Harbey Mashburn Sr.
Her father was James Cockburn son of George Cockburn of Amherst County VA and Franklin Co GA. Her mother was Obedience "Biddy" Wood.
John Wesley Mashburn of Forsyth County GA was in the 38th GA. In the winter of 1864, her was given his first furlong and returned home to conceived their last child, John Wesley Jr., with Mary. ON the date of this post-- MAY 12--John was captured at the battle of Spotsyvania and sent to Fort Delaware. I have thought about him all day.
He was paroled after Lee's Surrender but died within weeks of arriving home from diease caught at the POW camp.
After the war Mary lived with her sister and brother-in-law. Her sons grew up and took the family to Calhoun GA where they became brickmasons. Her oldest som William Eli Mashburn became a local Methodist minister. Still later, John Jr. moved to Alabama and took Mary with him. She is buried in Claiburne County Alabama.
BTW, James Andrews of the infamous Andrews Raiders, was hung and buried near where E.J. lived during the war. E.J.'s son John Mashburn, identified the gravesite when the federal government came decades laterto rebury Andrews with Congressional honors.
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